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Unblock users – Why mobile web compatibility is (so) important

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Ioana Chiorean

DevTalks Cluj - May 2016

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Who is Ioana?

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  • Mozillian for more than 6 years doing several roles within the community
  • CodeWeek Ambassador
  • QA Team Lead @ SOFTVISION

@ioana_cis

#lifeofamozillian

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What exactly ?

  • Compatibility
    • Web Compatibility
      • Mobile Web Compatibility

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Why? Oh why..

  • Smartphones everywhere
  • Busy bees
  • Professionals. Yes you!

Why is Mobile Web Compatibility important?

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What is she talking about?

#2439

#1163

#1937

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What is she talking about?

  • NASA blanck page on mobile
    • #1984
  • Wired reorganized elements
    • #2292
  • Hacker News hierarchicall display
    • #2135

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Other examples

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What you get? Is what you see..

  • More users (yay!)
  • Less angry feedback ( yay twice!)
  • Cooler things?
  • Smarter you. Yes you!

Why would you do this?

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Convinced?

Wink wink -> https://webcompat.com/

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How It Works..

  • Report a bug for any website or browser.

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  • Our team of volunteers diagnoses the bug.

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  • We send a fix to the site owner or browser.

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Team

  • Adam Stevenson ➡️ @adamopenweb�Alexa Roman ➡️ @calexity�Daniel Davis ➡️ @ourmaninjapan�Guillaume Demesy ➡️ @magsout

Karl Dubost ➡️ @karlpro� Mike Taylor ➡️ @miketaylr

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aka the heroes

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Questions?

@ioana_cis

@webcompat

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ioana@mozilla.ro

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Slides already available:

http://bit.ly/WebCompatDevTalks

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